Pandher

MEMORANDUM **

Sukhdev Singh Pandher, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the *696 Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying his applications for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the BIA’s denial of an application for asylum on the ground that the alien has not established eligibility. See Meza-Manay v. INS, 139 F.3d 759, 762 (9th Cir.1998). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the conclusion that Pandher failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of an enumerated ground. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). Pandher was arrested and beaten after militants who were riding in his vehicle fled from, and exchanged gunfire with, the police. On two occasions after his release, the police came to Pandher’s residence searching for him, in connection to the militants. He was not present on either occasion. Where there is evidence of a…